Am Donnerstag, dem 02.11.2023 um 10:43 +0100 schrieb Simon Tournier: > Hi, > > The command “guix edit” returns “+N path/to/file” that is then passed > to $EDITOR. Therefore $EDITOR needs the command line: > > $ $EDITOR +N /path/to/file > > Well, that is accepted by many $EDITOR, to my knowledge. At least, > Emacs, Vi or less are fine with it. This appears to be a somewhat archaic convention. Since less used +N, many other tools inherited it from it; POSIX requires -p for more since 2008 instead (ironically, it laments the incompatibility with vi and ex, which use -c).
> However, some other $EDITOR does not. I have in mind “kate” or > “VSCode“, > > $ kate -l N path/to/file > $ code --goto path/to/file:N > > This had been raised in #44272 [1]. The current fix is to wrap > $EDITOR and then make the current correct call. > > The question is: > > do we tweak “guix edit” for behaving differently depending on > $EDITOR? > > or > > do we provide some wrappers for the issues that already popped up? I think we should at least document our behaviour, so that there's "less surprise" (at the very least, we can point surprised folk towards the manual/cookbook then). Going forward, we might want to call upon some standards committee to finally have +LINE:COL or similar standardized behaviour for $EDITOR and $VISUAL and then use that. Cheers
